Bug#575226: firmware-linux-nonfree: firmware shipped in 0.23 cause radeonhd xorg drivers to be unusable with RV770
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:51:40PM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
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> I did not know that. To me, it seemed like radeonhd driver was the future and
> radeon some kind of legacy driver. Apparently, it is not.
It was the future until radeon included its own support for r500+ boards.
For some time, both had their advantages and drawbacks. But now KMS/DRI2
(and probably r800 support too) is only in radeon. And radeonhd gets pretty
much no development anymore.
> I think it should be documented somewhere.
I just updated the radeon NEWS file accordingly.
> And considering the results of
> running firmware-linux-nonfree with xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd (blank
> screen,, maybe it would be nice to add a conflict against xserver-xorg-video-
> radeonhd and a suggest in favor of xserver-xorg-video-radeon.
I think radeonhd should work a recent firmware and libdrm if KMS is
disabled. So this conflicts would be wrong.
Brice
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